Episode 2 of Evaline- a solo Improvised Radio play by Kate Herbert, recorded 30 March 2020

Evaline is my totally improvised radio play set in London in 1923. I play all characters alone, unrehearsed and unedited. After the first few episodes, i thought about who could be in the next ep and what might happen, but that was all the prep I did.

Oh, except for the research I did into London in 1923 and the Gentlemen's Clubs of London. In two eps, I found a song by Noel Coward that I could play in the Darling Buds Gentlemen's Club.

Often, the character and story went off in a direction I was not expecting. It's fun when characters have their own minds.

I recorded Evaline during Covid Lockdown. It keep me on my toes.

Just click to listen to Ep 2. (It's a video format without pictures!) 

In Episode 2, after staying overnight, Evvie thinks Appleby Manor is all a bit sinister and calls her Great Uncle Ernest’s home, The Trees, to get the chauffeur, Harry,  to collect her from Appleby Manor.

 

 

 Characters in Evaline, radio play

 

Evaline, or Evvie to her friends and family, is young, silly, privileged and fearless. She drives an emerald green sports car like a maniac. 

Other characters in this episode are:

Hillary ‘Hills’ Appleby - 25ish. A toff sent down from Oxford.

Hon (Mrs) Matilda Appleby -80s HIlls' wealthy Great Aunt.

Banderson- Matilda Appleby's Butler.

Chantel the Chanteuse - Tivoli Showgirl, Hills’ Cockney girlfriend.  

Ernest Pankhurst – Evvie’s Great Uncle.

Mrs Fossicker - Ernest Pankhurst’s housekeeper.

Harry – Ernest Pankhurst’s Chauffeur.

Daisy Trudgeon – Ernest Pankhurst’s Maid.

Binky – Evvie’s brother- (real name Harley Fotheringay Pankhurst) was up at Oxford with Hilary.

 

Appleby Manor -Matilda Appleby's stately home.

The Trees -Evvie’s Uncle’s home 3 miles away.